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Ex Machina Movie Review

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EX MACHINA Initial release: January 21, 2015 Director: Alex Garland Running time: 1h 50m Initial DVD release: July 14, 2015 Screenplay: Alex Garland Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Corey Johnson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno There are numerous explanations to be overwhelmed with the movie Ex Machina, the freshly released remarkably well-done sci-fi thriller. Most conspicuously, .however, is its capability to be both ordinary and exceptional at the same time As any respectable innovative, mystery thriller does, Ex Machina forces audience to question who knows what, who’s outmaneuvering who and what or who is real, professed or made-up, holding its viewers in a measured uncertainty all over. A deeper dive into core of the movie, however …show more content…

"He never would have made a single scratch," Caleb answers. Exactly. "The trial", Nathan says, "is not to act mechanically. It's to discover an achievement that is not involuntary. From talking, to breathing, to painting." An opinion he uses to repeat that, just as Ava was "automated to be heterosexual," Caleb, too, was automated in a certain manner. The logical reinforcements don't stop there. Reminiscent of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," Caleb memories a section of Mary in the black and white room, who's consumed her entire life in black and white and understandings color for the first time after walking outside. "The opinion is to illustrate the difference between a human brain and a computer," Caleb says. "The human is when she walks outside and the computer is Mary in the black and white …show more content…

"One day the AIs are going to look back on people the equal way we look at fossil skeletons on the grasslands of Africa...an erect ape breathing in dust with unpolished language and tools, all set for death," Nathan declares. "Don't sense evil for Ava, sense bad for yourself, man." What is mindfulness? How does involvement re-count to realization? How do we describe humankind? Is human believed the only kind of thought? Is sexuality complicated from communication? Are we being observed? Can we control machinery or will it ultimately control - maybe even subdue - us? These are just particular questions that Ex Machina - which comes from the Greek word "Deus Ex Machina" definition "God from the machine"- leaves us with. But, maybe the greatest significant problem is the one that Nathan fakes to Caleb in reply to why he produced Ava in the first place. "That's a strange question - wouldn't you if you

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